GCEP Technical Report 2014

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2014 Technical Report

2. Full Scale Research Activities -- Progress Reports
2.1 Hydrogen Production, Distribution and Use
2.1.1 Introduction
2.1.2 Efficient, Highly Productive Hydrogen Production from Glucose
James Swartz

2.2 Renewable Energy-Solar
2.2.1 Introduction to Renewable Energy-Solar
2.2.3 Advanced Electron Transport Materials for Application in Organic Photovoltaics (OPV)
Michael McGehee and Alan Sellinger
2.2.4 Design and Fabrication of the First All-Carbon-Based Solar Cell
Zhenan Bao
2.2.5 Upconverting Electrodes for Improved Solar Energy Conversion
Jennifer Dionne and Alberto Salleo
2.2.6 Toward High-Efficiency Thin Film Solar Cells Combining Multi-Junctions and Nano-Scale Light Management
James Harris, Shanhui Fan, Yi Cui, and Mark Brongersma
2.2.7 Dielectric Metasurfaces for Light Trapping in High‐efficiency Low‐cost Silicon Solar Cells
Mark Brongersma
2.2.8 Maximizing Solar-to-Fuel Conversion Efficiency in Oxide Photo-electrochemical Cells Using Heat and Concentrated Sunlight
William Chueh and Nicholas Melosh
2.2.9 Novel Inorganic-organic Perovskites for Solution Processable Photovoltaic
Michael D. McGehee and Hemamala I. Karunadasa

2.3 Renewable Energy-Biomass
2.3.1 Introduction to Renewable Energy-Biomass
2.3.2 Synthesis of Biofuels on Bioelectrodes
Alfred Spormann
2.3.3 Capturing Electrical Current via Mechanisms Used for Interspecies Electron Transfer to Produce Methane
Alfred Spormann and Bruce Logan
2.3.4 Lignin Management: Optimizing Yield in Lignin‐Modified Plant
Clint Chapple, Wout Boerjan, Claire Halpin, John Ralph, and Xu "Sirius" Li

2.4 CO₂ Capture & Separation
2.4.1 Introduction to CO₂ Capture and Separation
2.4.2 Biomimetic Sorbents for Selective CO₂ Capture
Jennifer Wilcox, Daniel P Stack, Zhenan Bao
2.4.3 New Materials and Process development for Energy-Efficient Carbon Capture in the Presence of Water Vapor
Randall Snurr, Joseph Hupp, Omar Farha and Fengqi You
2.4.4 Chemically-Complexing Ionic Liquids for Pre-Combustion CO₂ Capture
Joan Brennecke, Brandon Ashfeld, Edward Maginn, William Schneider, and Mark Stadtherr
2.4.5 Carbon Capture Systems Analysis: Comparing Exergy Efficiency and Cost of Electricity of Existing and Future Technology Options
Chris F. Edwards and Adam R. Brandt
2.4.6 Systems Analysis of Advanced Power Plant Carbon Capture Technologies
Edward S. Rubin

2.5 CO₂ Storage
2.5.1 Introduction to CO₂ Storage
2.5.2 Linking Chemical and Physical Effects of CO₂ Injection to Geophysical Parameters
Gary Mavko, Rolf Arvidson, Andreas Luttge
2.5.3 Reactivity of CO₂ In the Subsurface
Katharine Maher, Dennis Bird and Gordon Brown
2.5.4 Multiphase Flow and Monitoring of CO₂ in the Subsurface
Sally Benson

2.6 Advanced Combustion
2.6.1 Introduction to Advanced Combustion
2.6.2 The Sootless Diesel: Use of In-Plume Fuel Transformation to Enable High-Load, High-Efficiency, Clean Combustion
Christopher Edwards

2.7 Advanced Materials and Catalysts
2.7.1 Introduction to Advanced Materials and Catalysts
2.7.2 Using First-principles Simulations to Discover Materials with Ultra-low Work Functions for Energy Conversion Applications
Roger Howe, Jens Norskov and Piero Pianetta
2.7.3 Nanostructured CU Electrodes for Energy-Efficient Conversion of CO₂ to Fuel
Matthew Kanan
2.7.4 Schottky Tunnel Contacts for Efficient Coupling of Photovoltaics and Catalysts
Paul McIntyre and Christopher Chidsey
2.7.5 Reductive Carbon-Carbon Bond Formation with Carbon Dioxide: Immobilized Dinuclear Copper Complexes as Discrete Electrocatalysts for the Formation of Oxalic Acid
T. Daniel P. Stack and Christopher Chidsey
2.7.6 Electrohydrogenation: Enabling Science for Renewable Fuels
Robert Waymouth and Christopher Chidsey
2.7.7 Combining Theory and Experiment to Design and Develop Active, Selective Metal Alloy Catalysts for the Electrochemical Conversion of CO₂ and CO to Sustainable Fuels and Chemicals
Thomas F. Jaramillo, Jens K. Nørskov, and Anders Nilsson

2.8 Advanced Electric Infrastructure
2.8.1 Introduction to Electric Infrastructure
2.8.2 Scalable and Flat Controls for Reliable Power Grid Operation with High Renewable Penetration
Kevin Tomsovic, Thomas Overbye, Peter Sauer, George Gross, Philip Krein, Alejandro Dominguez-Garcia, Hanoch Lev-Ari, Ali Abur, Joe Chow, Jian Sun, and Daniel Shawhan

2.9 Advanced Coal
2.9.1 Introduction to Advanced Coal
2.9.2 Co-generation of Carbon-Free Hydrogen and Electricity from Coal in a Steam-Carbon Fuel Cell with Carbon Capture
Reginald Mitchell and Turgut Gur

2.10 Grid Storage
2.10.1 Introduction to Grid Storage
2.10.2 A Novel Solid Oxide Flow Battery Utilizing H-C-O Chemistry (CSM)
Scott Barnett, Robert Braun and Robert Kee
2.10.3 Novel Electrolyte Energy Storage Systems (U Tex. Austin)
Jeremy Meyers, Allen Bard, Thomas Zawodzinski and Alex Papandrew
2.10.4 Safe, Inexpensive, and Very High Power Batteries For Use To Reduce Short Term Transients on the Electric Grid
Robert Huggins and Yi Cui
2.10.5 Photoelectrochemically Rechargeable Zn-Air Batteries
Hongjie Dai

2.11 Advanced Transportation Systems
2.11.1 Introduction to Advanced Transportation Systems
2.11.2 High-Energy-Density Lithium Ion Battery using Self-Healing Polymers
Zhenan Bao and Yi Cui

3. Scoping Research Activities -- Progress Reports
3.1 Introduction to Ongoing Scoping Research Activities
3.2 Atomically Engineering Oxide Heterostructures for Solar Water Splitting Catalysis
Harold Hwang
3.3 Enhancing Hydride Thermodynamics Through Nanostructuring
Jennifer Wilcox
3.4 New Pathways Towards High Performance Transparent Conductive Oxides
Xiaolin Zheng
3.5 Spatially Engineered Delamination Layers for Creating Inexpensive and Scalable Single Crystal III-V Thin Films for Photovoltaics and Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting
Bruce Clemens

5. Full-Scale Research Activities - Final Reports
5.1 Introduction to Completed Full-Scale Research Activities
5.2 Renewable Energy - Solar
5.2.1 Rational Organic Semiconductor Material Design: A Pathway Towards Breakthrough Performance in Solar Cells
Zhenan Bao and Alan Aspuru-Guzik
5.3 Renewable Energy-Biomass
5.3.1 Novel Plants Optimized for Lignin, Growth and Biofuel Production via Re-Mutagenesis
Claire Halpin and Gordon Simpson
5.4 Grid Storage
5.4.1 Low-Cost Flywheel Energy Storage for Mitigating the Variability of Renewable Power Generation
Robert Hebner, Michael Lewis, Siddharth Pratap, Ray Baughman and Shaoli Fang

6. Scoping Research Activities - Final Reports
6.1 Introduction to Completed Scoping Research Activities
6.2 Ultra-Fast Rechargeable Nickel/Zinc Batteries
Hongjie Dai
6.3 Exploring How Combined Restrained and Unrestrained Reactions Can be Used to Realize High-Efficiency (>70%) Engines
Christopher F. Edwards